Analysis: Assad will turn to Russia for a 'way out' Jerusalem Post By YAAKOV KATZ Defense officials say Russian FM is expected to tell Assad diplomatic support from Russia won't last. By REUTERS/Syrian TV As violence continued to escalate in Syria on Monday, officials in the Israeli defense establishment predicted ... |
![]() BBC News | Russia, China lose credit in Arab world - League chief Reuters India By Paul Ingrassia and Edmund Blair | CAIRO (Reuters) - The Arab League chief said on Monday that Russia and China had lost diplomatic credit in the Arab world by vetoing a UN resolution on Syria and may have sent a message to Damascus that it had a ... Russia raps West, sends mission to Syria Russia aims to keep Syria options open after UN veto Russia: Why the fury over UN veto on Syria? |
![]() msnbc.com | Russian setbacks stress NASA's need for private spaceships msnbc.com By Denise Chow The recent delay of the next manned launch to the International Space Station because of a damaged Russian space capsule highlights NASA's critical need for commercially built vehicles, space policy experts say. NASA confident in Russia despite space accidents |
![]() National Post | Russia drills through 4 km of ice to reach 'mythical' subglacial lake National Post By Maria Panina MOSCOW — A Russian team has succeeded in drilling through four kilometres of ice to the surface of a mythical subglacial Antarctic lake which could hold as yet unknown life forms, reports said Monday. Lake Vostok is the largest ... Russian team reaches buried lake under ice |
Russian Inflation Slows to Post-Soviet Record of 4.2% BusinessWeek 6 (Bloomberg) -- Russia's inflation decelerated in January to the slowest annual rate since the Soviet Union collapsed two decades ago as food costs eased and the government delayed increases in utility tariffs. Inflation was 4.2 percent from a year ... |
Russian wheat prices stall as export rush slows Reuters MOSCOW Feb 6 (Reuters) - A rapid rise in Russian export grain prices has slowed to a halt and may not resume as traders, confident that export loadings will continue into April without new state restrictions, looked to plentiful inland stocks for ... Wheat prices face hit from Russian exports |
![]() euronews | Russia's Snow Revolutionaries Ponder Next Move RIA Novosti So where does Russia's 'Snow Revolution' go from here? “The demonstrations have already achieved a lot,” protest organizer and enviromental activist Yevgenia Chirikova told RIA Novosti on Monday. “Society has changed – it's the authorities who have not ... Russia Resorts to Anti-Americanism Russia: Boiling political environment regardless of cold Russia: pre-poll inflation at new low |
![]() Bloomberg | Putin: Russia Must 'Renew Democracy' But Cautiously Voice of America February 06, 2012 Putin: Russia Must 'Renew Democracy' But Cautiously VOA News Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who is seeking a historic third term as president, has acknowledged that Russians want more say in government and the need to renew ... Putin: Russia must 'renew democracy', but not hastily The Politics Of Crowd Estimates In Russia Putin Will Avoid Russian Presidential Election Debates by Sending Proxies |
![]() MiamiHerald.com | Europe gas supply up, but Italy says critical Reuters * European Commission says not a crisis * Italy considers suspending flows to businesses * Bad weather interrupts Italy's LNG terminal operations LONDON/ROME, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Gas supplies to the frozen European Union from Russia improved at the ... Ukraine Calls for Cooperation as Russian Gas Supply Cuts Hurt EU Again RPT-WRAPUP 2-Europe gets more Russian gas, Italy critically short Russia's Gazprom admits cutting gas supplies to Europe for short time |
![]() TSN | Russia advances in Fed Cup, beating Spain 3-2 CBSSports.com MOSCOW -- Russia advanced to the Fed Cup World Group semifinals with a 3-2 win over Spain in the first-round series on Sunday. Svetlana Kuznetsova secured the host an insurmountable 3-1 lead over Spain, beating Silvia Soler-Espinosa 6-2, 4-6, ... Russia defeats Spain to advance to Fed Cup semifinals Fed Cup: Russia advances past Spain Russians, Czechs advance in Fed Cup |